Embibe Experts Solutions for Exercise 1: SAT 2021

Dhanno gets up in the morning and milks her cow. She sells milk to three houses. She then cooks food for her family, and prepares her children for school. AT $10$a.m. she goes to the market with vegetables from her garden and sells them. By $11:30$ a.m. she goes to Simranjeet’s house and cooks food for Simranjeet’s family. At $2:00$ p.m. she goes to Harpreet’s house and washes clothes. By $5:00$ p.m. she goes home and washes her family’s clothes.

Identify the economic activities performed by Dhanno.

I. Getting her children ready for school

II. Cooking food for her family

III. Cooking for Simranjeet’s family

IV. Washing her family’s clothes

V. Washing Harpreet’s clothes

VI. Selling vegetables

VII. Selling milk

A carpenter has a workshop near a marketplace in a small town. He employed two persons A and B on a daily wage. The carpenter is not happy with these two workers. A is irregular, mostly either he comes late or goes home early for some reason, but completes his assigned jobs on time. B is regular but takes double the time as A to complete the job. The carpenter pays the same daily wage rate to both.

Which of the following suggestion you would recommend to the carpenter?

In a farmer’s household in West Bengal, all the adult members were involved in the activities of the household’s own farm. The household could earn enough income to lead a life with basic necessities of life and little savings to meet emergency expenditures. Last year, the eldest son, aged $40$ years, was bedridden for almost a year due to a serious illness. Hence, he could not participate in the household’s farming activities. However, the income of the household from agriculture did not decline.

How do you call generally the employment of the eldest son on the household’s farm?